The 14-pin TI JTAG connector that is used on BeagleBoard is supported by a large number of JTAG emulation products and has been tested using Lauterbach, Spectrum Digital XDS510USB+ and TI XDS560 emulation pods. Note that it will not work with the Spectrum Digital XDS510USB (non-plus) as it does not support a target with 1.8V JTAG.

Add Cortex-A8 CPU ID. Currently only Cortex-M3 is supported. Take this as example. Once you connect to target you should get error message expect cpuid of xxxxxx but got yyyyyy which should contain Cortex-A8 CPU ID.

Take CPU scan lengths from OMAP3530 CCS config.

Regarding EMU0/EMU1 pins on BeagleBoard, pulling both pins down does currently not make Cortex-A8 CPU accessible. Only one TAP is visible (ICEPick). Therefore OpenOCD will not be able to validate the scan chain. The documentation for the control of EMU0/EMU1 is very misleading:

TI has a good presentation describing the functionality of the ICEPick TAP Router (or generically refered to as JTAG Route Controller or JRC). The ICEPick jtag device ID is 0x0b73b02f (Manufacturer: 0x017, Part: 0xb73b, Version: 0x0) and is the same as the Davinci series.

It may still be possible to use the EMU0-L/EMU1-L configuration, but with consideration that the TAP router will already configured for with the arm core interface. Yet to be tested.

If above basics work, additionally MMU, cache support and some include files for A8 might be added to OpenOCD.

Note: If you made some progress regarding BeagleBoard OpenOCD support, please send a short note to BeagleBoard ML and OpenOCD ML.

Note: There is a bug in OpenOCD build tooling using --enable-ft2232_libftdi regarding -with-ftd2xx path if you didn't install libftdi library in standard path: While you give the path to include directory, the header file is found. But if you have libftdi.so in <path_to>/lib linking might stop with

BDI 2000

Example

The BDI2000 appears to work with the omap35xx.cfg and regOMAP3500.def files that come with the BDI hardware. I had to modify the 10-pin cable so that the BeagleBoard JTAG header matched the BDI target A connector:

BDI config

This configuration assumes the "default" EMU 0 and 1 configuration (both not connected/high state). In this EM setup at first only one TAP is exported. A set of commands must be run on the first tap (embedded ICE)
to enable access to the core: